Mental Strength
Priest · Discipline · opens at 15 points spent · 5 ranks
Mental Strength works differently in World of Warcraft: Forever than it does in Classic Era.
Mental Strength ranks in Forever
- Rank 1 Increases your total Intellect by 3%.
- Rank 2 Increases your total Intellect by 6%.
- Rank 3 Increases your total Intellect by 9%.
- Rank 4 Increases your total Intellect by 12%.
- Rank 5 Increases your total Intellect by 15%.
What Mental Strength does in Classic Era
Forever changed this talent. The Classic Era wording is kept here rank for rank so the two can be read side by side.
- Rank 1 Increases your maximum Mana by 2%.
- Rank 2 Increases your maximum Mana by 4%.
- Rank 3 Increases your maximum Mana by 6%.
- Rank 4 Increases your maximum Mana by 8%.
- Rank 5 Increases your maximum Mana by 10%.
Where Mental Strength sits in the Discipline tree
Mental Strength is a Discipline talent for Priest. You need 15 points in Discipline before the row it sits on opens. Taking it opens Penance.
- Unlocks: Penance
- Same row: Improved Inner Fire, Soul Warding, Improved Mana Burn
How often people take Mental Strength
99 of the 180 public Priest builds saved here — 55% — put at least one point in Mental Strength. Counted across the 1500 most viewed and voted public builds on this site. These are builds players made for themselves before the game is playable, so read them as what people are trying, not as advice.
Where this came from
Changed in Forever.
- BlizzCon 2026 show-floor footage
- Xaryu VOD 2872270692 @5:24:58 (rank 1 tooltip)